For more than 40 years, the poet and driving spirit Ninos Aho has strived to create a new Assyrian identity, which he calls the modern Assyrians. Severely affected by blood cancer, he is bursting with more energy than ever - or perhaps because of that, he is in a hurry to make his most important promptings before the disease takes the upper hand. Last fall he was hailed in Germany and Holland. Recently, also in Sweden. Journalist Augin Kurt makes a personal portrait of a prominent figure in the Assyrian Movement.